December 26, 2012

"In all these years, she’s never told the truth about this hoax or paid me a cent," said Steven Pagones, the former Dutchess County prosecutor who was called a "gang-raping, kidnapping racist."

The case was catapulted onto the national stage by attorneys Alton H. Maddox and C. Vernon Mason, and the then-little-known Rev. Al Sharpton, who claimed she was raped 33 times.

Celebrities weighed in, with Bill Cosby posting a $25,000 reward for information on the case, Don King promised $100,000 for Brawley’s education and boxer Mike Tyson gave her a $30,000 watch to ease her pain.

Brawley has just been located, working as a nurse, under an alias, in Virginia.

I saw the picture. She's fat and ugly and works as an LPN. Her life is its own penance......Her stepfather was a convicted murderer. It's said that she invented this lie to escape punishmet from him. How would you like to spend your teen age years living with a convicted murderer? For all the lies, shams, and hyperbole that surrounded Tawana, hers was the most comprehensible and forgivable. Let her go.

Brawley is still a con artist. Screw her. Why is she supposed to be left alone and not hectored for her malfeasance? She wons it.

Spike Lee's "Mookie" character in "Do the Right Thing" wants credit for diverting the mob's attention from Vinnie to the store...and yet, he shows up to demand his paycheck from a guy who was just wiped out. Mookie's line of thought, and Spike Lee's as well, is "I did something right...so pay me bitch." You owe it to long dead ancestors....so pay ME.

Brawley is no different than Mookie...except she didn't do any *right thing.*

@Shouting Thomas - I figure she was a 15-yo dumb kid manipulated by Mason, Maddox (both lawyers) and Sharpto - people a lot more responsible than she was.

I have no idea where her head is at, none. Don't know if she's remorseful or in denial, or if she even cares.

You think it should raise alarms that someone who was manipulated into making seriously bad choices when she was 15 is now a nurse? I made seriously bad choices at that age, I'm glad it didn't preclude me from helping others or being able to earn a living. Last I head the country had a serious nurses shortage.

I imagine the idea behind trying to hold her accountable as an adult for her actions is that you are not an adult, no matter your age, if you can't own up to your actions.

I suspect the money is not the issue, but extracting a too-long-belated confession/apology. Any admission of any kind, rather than the apparent belief that you could do such a thing and simply go on with your life as if nothing had ever happened. Of course, this is the privilege that women who make false rape accusations usually do enjoy. I'm all for pushback against that.

In a recent issue of The New Yorker there was an article about rape in South Africa. According to the article, fifty percent of the women there claim to have been raped and twenty five percent of the men claim to have participated in a rape. These figures were based on polling. Since people don't ordinarily brag about being raped or being rapists, perhaps the figures given are actually higher.....The writer of the article points out that rapes of women who are apparently lesbian are called "corrective rapes" and are accompanied with a great deal of brutality. The President of the country, Zuma, was credibly accused of rape although he beat the conviction.....This is an example of one of those scandals whose greatest scandal is that it is not a scandal. If black activists and liberals can speak out so forcefully against the Duke and Brawley rapists, why are they so silent about this. One gets the sense that they are not against rape so much as they are against whites.

Every couple years I check the DOJ's latest numbers for rape and sexual assault split for race and each time I find the same astonishing imbalance. It's hard not to conclude that when it comes to sex crimes, blacks are waging war on whites, while whites conspicuously avoid blacks.

Yet the media goes crazy for the "whites raping blacks" stories that almost never happen, but won't touch the horrifying real numbers of blacks victimizing whites.

There is something very sick here.

(I am surprised there are almost no White/Black sex crimes, but those are the numbers the DOJ has been reporting for years now.)

I feel sorry for Tawana Brawley for several reasons. First, her parents gave her a fucked up first name. Secondly, how can a 15 years old girl be held responsible for being manipulated by three black professional race hustlers?

Someone needs to find a way to make Al Sharpton pay and pay big. That fat, bloated greasy assed motherfucker has been pimping his shit on the back of that hoax since the day it started and he floated scott free.

It's disgusting to hunt down Tawana and demand money for things she did at 15. She was an ill raised, abused, manipulated child, and now she's apparently a gainfully employed and law abiding adult. Leave her be and let the race hustlers who used their clout and power (Tawana had none then and doesn't have much now) to ruin lives pay for their own crimes...including the exploitation of a clearly troubled teenage girl.

Brawley is the least culpable in the matter. She really was a messed up kid who was manipulated by her elders. She really should render a proper apology, but to seem money damages at this point is just pointless.

Sharpton should have been bankrupted and driven from public life - that would have been just and good for race relations.